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October 16, 2009
YouTube Tests Real-Time Comment Search
If you like to find instances of people jumping to conclusions, being extremely judgmental and just pure hate, then comment search on YouTube will be right up your alley. Seriously, though, in online reputation management, the ability to search YouTube comments will be very useful for engaged companies. Thankfully, ReadWriteWeb has the goods on a real-time comment search that was very quietly rolled out by YouTube. To access it, you'll need to go directly to http://www.youtube.com/comment_search.
For the screenshot, I wanted to keep things as clean as possible, so I searched "love" and here's what it looks like:
Notice the trending topics - conduct a few searches yourself and you'll see how quickly those trending topics change. Give it a go and let us know what you think by leaving a comment.
Posted by Nathania Johnson on October 16, 2009 5:17 PM
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YouTube comments are a DISGRACE. I've never seen so much hateful, outright racist, Fag-bashing commentary being given a forum and somehow validated as 'ok' in the public eye. And now YouTube thinks that's acceptable, normal, and should be given easy search-ability?
Will Google decide these are as worthy as Tweets - to put in the Top 3 realtime results of Page 1 SERPS when people do searches on phrases like "kill niggers, "burn jews" and "die faggot"?
I dare any reader to type those phrases into YouTube's AMAZING realtime-search and not be APPALLED by what Google deems worthy of serving up.
MacGizmoGuy October 16, 2009 9:05 PM
yo MacGizmoGuy, just wanted to say about the last part of your comment, don't shoot the messenger if you don't like what you see. Yes it's apauling, but that's because it's out there, not because they "chose" to put it there.
Flasht October 17, 2009 3:31 PM
Yeah i do really agree on your statement.There should be some kind of moral while commenting.
youtube proxy October 18, 2009 1:09 PM
to Replica: until now we couldn't search 'Comments'. Could be an interesting development. I don't know where things are going to go between wiki pages next to people's websites and now analysing youtube comments...what next?
WMoynan October 19, 2009 4:13 PM
